Each year, Hawaii State Civil Defense in cooperation
with a number of governmental and private agencies conduct a state-wide
exercise to test and evaluate preparations for operations before, during
and after a hurricane.
The exercise, entitled Makani Pahili, will be conducted in the early half of June.

These are the arrangements underway within the amateur radio community
in preparation for participating in the exercise.
If you know of any, please contact Ron Hashiro, AH6RH

Initial contact will be made on the 147.060 repeater.
Stations will then be moved to another frequency,
if possible, to handle traffic.

HF will also be used as follows to communicate with SCD and to exercise NVIS.

SCD will be on the SCD interisland net:
40m on 7080 kHz LSB (+/- qrm). Freq moved to 7080 due to Honduras earthquake
60m on 5330.5 kHz USB (+/- qrm)
80m on 3993.5 kHz LSB (if 40m is not open)

Messages will be exchanged in ICS-213 message format.
A major part of this exercise is to gain experience in sending and receiving ICS-213 messages.
Stations are encouraged to generate and send test messages for the exercise.
All stations will use "THIS IS AN EXERCISE MESSAGE" at the beginning
and end of all messages.

During the Tuesday and Wednesday daytime nets, the net will interface directly with a simulated joint Federal-State-Oahu EOC,
and stations are encouraged to exchange messages consistent with the exercise.
Listen to bulletins issued during the exercise for scenario conditions.

Kevin AH6QO is looking for stations to inject pre-defined messages via amateur radio on VHF/UHF into the EOC on Wednesday daytime.
Contact Kevin at AH6QO at ARRL.NET if you are interested and able to participate.